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- From: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3k Battery Location?
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 20:58:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- : BB> The real question everybody wants to know is, how on earth do you
- : BB> get the darned thing *off*...??? Is there any alternative, short
- : BB> of using wire cutters to snip off the mounting claws away from
- : BB> the base and then soldering insulated wire leads to the stubs to
- : BB> connect to another battery holder located somewhere safer? Is
- : BB> there any easier way to get that battery out? How did you do
- : BB> it...?
-
-
- Gene Heskett (gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com) wrote:
-
- : I did have to jump in here, and "open my mouth", didn't I... Didn't I?
-
- :-) We all want to know! (After all, our Amigas may be in jeopardy!
- Lions and tigers and bears oh my...!)
-
-
- : Well, in my case, I am a Certified Electronics Tech., and I do own a
- : suitable soldering iron. And I've been running it for a living for
- : very close to 50 years!
-
- Beware, people. This man has a hot piece of metal,
- and he knows how to use it.... :-)
-
-
- : Seriously, I've found that if it does need replacing, there is
- : relatively little that can be done in the way of making solder
- : actually wet those "by now corroded tabs" you would get by doing it
- : that way. So I prefer to go ahead and remove the motherboard, remove
- : its bottom shield, and "do it right". The replacement batterys will
- : quite often have a nearly identical '3' legged set of mounting tabs
- : that can be made to fit right in the original location on the board.
-
- This is great news for people whose batteries have already gone
- plop-plop fizz-fizz, but mine is still intact, and holding proper
- charge. I just want to know if it's possible to desolder or
- otherwise detach a battery that's still clean and in good
- condition from that claw somehow. Is it? Is it?
- (We want to know!) :-)
-
- --
- Amiga /// | | "They had a glow-in-the-dark
- 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
- \\\/// | claevius@prairienet.org | isn't radioactive, is he?
- \XX/ | | Cool beans. Nuclear Santa."
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